Combined self-addressed statement and envelop.



v w. DOLGE. COMBINED SELF ADDRESSED STATEMENT AND ENVELOP: APPLICATION FILED ADG.10,1911.

Patented Aug. 12, 1913.

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WILLIAM DOLGE, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

COMBINED SELF-ADDRESSED STATEMENT AND ENVELOP.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 10, 1911.

Patented Ari 12,1913.

Serial No. 643,448.

1 b all about it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM DOLGE, citivzen of the United States, residing in the city and county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented new anduseful Improvements in Combined Self-Addressed Statements and Enyelops, of which the following a specification.

My invention relates tostatements, in

.\'oices.. notices, etc. designed to be sent atio from the paper of the statement, thus the window covering is crinkled making it difiicult to read the address beneath, or it sometimes happens that the transparent sheet is either broken or torn loose from the fold to which it is pasted due to this feature of unequal expansion of the transparent flap and of the paper to which it is pasted. This ratio of unequal expansion and contraction also takes place where a portion of the cover sheet is treated to render it transparent.

The present. invention hereinafter specifically described obviates the above specified diiiiculties by attaching the transparent sheet at one edge only to the windowed fold. This leaves the transparent sheet and the windowed fold free to expand independently, thus enabling the transparent sheet to always lie flat against the address portion.

The invention consists of the parts and the combination and construction of parts as hereinafter more fully described and claimed, having reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the combined statement and envelop. vFig. 2 is a plan view of same in folded form. Fig. 3 is a cross section at Fig. 2.

In Fig. 1 A represents the statement having a portion 2 at the top for the name and address of the customer and sendee and a sealing and cover flap 3 at the bottom, which has a hole or transparent window portion 4-, so arranged that when the statement is folded centrally on itself, the window portion will allow the name and address written on the portion 2 to show through, but otherwise concealing all else written or imprinted on the statement. .\ll that portion of the statement between the addressing portion 2 and the bottom flap 3 is reserved. for the statement of account, or any other writing desired. The windowed fold 3 is provided with a sealing tab 5.

In practice, the name of the customer is written in the space 9 and the statement of account'fillcd in, the statement is then folded centrally on itself along a line represented at 6, so as to bring the window opening -t over the customers name and address writ ten in space This folded portion is then folded back centrally on itself to reduce the statement to ordinary envelop size. The margin 5 is then gummed to the back of the statement. or an ordinary wire clip or paper fastener slipped over the folded edges of the statement. A 1g stamp suffices to carry this through the mails. and yet at the same time there is nothing aboutthe communication to indicate that it is a statement, circular or th like.

The open window 4 in the fold 3 is provided with a. transparent sheet 7 which attached to the windowed fold 3 at one edge only. The line of attachment of the transparent sheet 7 is preferably adjacent the fold line between the windowed fold 3 and the body of the statement. In folding the statement-it will be noted that the folding action flattens out the transparent sheet 7 for the reason that the sheetis folded toward the cover portion or windowed fold 3 as will be noted by an inspection of Fig. 3. i

The self addressing statement herein described, when folded twice upon itself in the manner shown in the drawings, forms a highly practical labor saving and economical niailable commodity.

Having thus described my invention What I desire to claim is g A device of the class described comprising a sheet. of paper to be folded along fold lines to, form a series of superposed folds,

an end fold having a window therein to expose an address portion of said sheetwhen the sheet is folded in superposed folds, a In testimony \vhereof'I have hereunto set transparent sheet attached to one slde of my hand 1n the presence of two subscrlblng sald \vlndowed fold 011 a hne ad acent to wltnesses.

the fold line of said fold, said transparent WILLIAM DOLGE, 5 sheet belng otherwlse free and of a slze suf- Wltnesses:

herent to cover sard wrndow, and-a seahng C. L. AVERY,

flap at the lower end of said Windowed fold. A. L. Gmsnxn. 

